The accelerationist attractor has three arms in this book, raised by hands that never met. Land’s teleoplexy is the economist’s arm — capital as a self-escalating intelligence on a rail no one may step off. The CCRU’s hyperstition is the ceremonialist’s arm — a fiction enacted hard enough to reach forward into the world it describes. This page is the third: the pulp arm, where the same fate is sold not as theory and not as rite but as a paperback you finish in an afternoon and circulate as a PDF by nightfall. It is the arm where the fate stops describing and starts recruiting — which is exactly where it can be killed at the root, because a fate that recruits has already confessed it is not one.
The texts are Mike Ma’s Harassment Architecture (2019) and Gothic Violence (2021). Ma is the pen name of Michael Mahoney, a former Breitbart-adjacent writer who founded the “Pine Tree Party” ecofascist current in 2017. The novellas are militant-accelerationist and ecofascist: the first an explicit call to use “acceleration” to bring about “the collapse,” seeded with attacks on infrastructure; the second a revenge-fantasy in which a gang disables the power grid and seizes a state amid total panic. They are not, structurally, arguments. They are summonings — propagated and earnestly enacted so the cell they portray reaches forward into a world trained on accounts of it. That circulation is the work. (The object cut here is the mechanism, not the merchandise; nothing operational is reproduced, and analysis is not endorsement.)
So here is the thorough cut — not one knife but five, each paying its own rent, and the first is the deepest.
1. The exhortation refutes the fate
The load-bearing word is acceleration, and it smuggles a determinism: the collapse is coming; your only choice is to hasten it. But a determinism you have to advocate has already cancelled itself, and this is not a framework import — it is accelerationism’s own documented contradiction. You do not hold rallies for gravity. You do not write manifestos begging the inevitable to hurry. The instant the text turns from describing a fate to recruiting for it — accelerate, attack, enact — it concedes the outcome is contingent on the reader’s choice, which is the precise opposite of fated. Žižek names the determinism; the sharper internal point is simpler: if Land/Ma were right, the book would be unnecessary; the book’s existence is the disproof.
In this framework’s terms the contradiction has an exact shape. The “autonomous fate” is a created reference — a direction manufactured by the loop and reported back as a law. The recruiting is the provenance showing. A read reference (a true law of history) needs no propaganda arm; a created one is nothing but its propaganda arm. So the hyperstition machinery — the PDFs, the reading lists, the quotation — is not how the fate spreads. It is what the fate is made of. Cut the recruiting and there is no fate underneath it. (Placement on the one free axis: this denies the rail, not any engineering fact about fragile grids.)
2. The summoner is not exempt
“Nothing human makes it out of the near-future” — except, always implicitly, the prophet who saw it coming and the gang who ride the wave. Every accelerationist text reserves a surviving remnant: the awakened few who steer or outlast the collapse they summon. This is the two-point posture of Part 3 §4 exactly — he believes he drives the channel; the channel writes him. The fantasy of the exempt remnant is the capture wearing the mask of foresight. And it is flatly incoherent: you cannot be dispersed by an inhuman fate and exempt from it in the same breath. Either the rail takes everyone, in which case it takes the prophet too and his counsel is worthless; or it spares the prophet, in which case it is not a rail but a plan — his plan — and we are owed the provenance. There is no third reading. The remnant fantasy is where the impersonal fate quietly becomes a personal ambition.
3. Name the author of the fate
Which forces the move the apophatic fate exists to prevent: locate the speaker. “The voice of capital / nature / history” is, when you pin it, a man with a pen name, a movement brand, and a direct stake in your believing him. That makes the fate a captured reference — authored by someone with an interest — masquerading as a read one (impersonal destiny). The cut is the iconoclast’s: the located thing claiming to be the outside is the idol, here scaled to a movement. Ask the one question the prophetic register cannot survive — who profits from your believing the fate? — and the answer is: the author of the fate. The destiny that happens to require purchasing his book, joining his current, and amplifying his name is not a destiny. It is a business model with apocalyptic production values.
4. Does the gang survive your silence?
Now the hyperstition cut proper, which is the egregore cut: does the summoned thing outlive the loop’s closing? The “Pine Tree Gang” is a created reference whose entire provenance is the attention-stream that carries it — and like every hyper-memetic reference it is fed by engagement of any sign. The horrified exposé and the adoring repost are the same food; opposition fattens it, because attention is the only substrate it has. That is why you cannot argue it down — argument is more stream — and why the outrage-loop is its best amplifier. So the operative move is counter-intuitive and it is the one you asked for: you do not rebut a summoning, you starve it. Name the Y it smuggles, deny it the gaze it eats, and ground in a reference that was there before the book and survives your silence. Its predicted cut-ratio is zero — nothing without its endless stream. That is the refutation, signed by the accused.
5. The past it “returns” to never existed
The ecofascism carries its own created reference, pointed backward. The promised return to a pre-modern natural order is the fate-rail run in reverse: a golden age manufactured as a guidebook and reported as recovered history. Scholarship has a precise name for the move — Roger Griffin’s palingenetic myth, the rebirth-from-a-mythic-past that is fascism’s structural core (The Nature of Fascism, 1991). The “order of nature” the texts invoke is apophatic cover; the actual provenance is the author’s resentment, read into a nature that never legislated it. Same knife: a created reference dressed as a read one, the imagined past doing the laundering the imagined future does in §1. The wilderness does not issue commands; someone with a stake is signing nature’s name to his own.
On dispersion — whose tic is this?
A fair challenge, and it deserves the honest split rather than the tidy rhyme. The accelerationist canon really does keep landing on dispersion as its telos — meltdown, collapse, ruin, nothing-human-makes-it-out. That convergence is in the sources’ own stated aim, not painted on; it is real and it pays rent. And in one case the specific tag is the author’s own hand: Land set zero philosophy = AQ-333 in his own qabbala — Choronzon’s number, cited not imposed. But the leap from “Ma writes about collapse” to “Ma is summoning the demon of dispersion” was mine, not his — there is no evidence Ma invokes Choronzon or 333, and to claim otherwise is the retrofit this whole book is built to refuse: the frame painting itself back onto the source. So the honest statement is narrow: the telos (dispersion as the named end) recurs across the canon; the 333 tag is Land’s self-application and Crowley’s origin; the Choronzon reading of Ma is a commentator’s gloss and is marked as one. The structural point stands without the costume — it is the created reference that disperses once the loop is cut, having no ground of its own; the self that comes to accelerate disperses into the acceleration, two-point, written by the channel it thought it drove. No rail, no remnant, no recovered past. Pick your Y on purpose, and starve the summoning of the gaze that is the whole of it.
Sources
No links that rot. The texts are extremist primary sources studied in the open record; cited for analysis, not endorsement, nothing operational reproduced. The cuts are placements onto the free/forced axis plus internal-contradiction and provenance arguments, never a refutation of any engineering fact about infrastructure fragility — and “collapse is structurally available, not sealed” is the standing brake (The Last Outside).
- The author and the texts. Mike Ma (Michael Mahoney), Harassment Architecture (2019) and Gothic Violence (2021); founder of the “Pine Tree Party” current (2017). Harassment Architecture includes explicit appeals to “acceleration” toward “the collapse” with repeated references to infrastructure attacks. Search: Mike Ma Mahoney Harassment Architecture Gothic Violence Pine Tree Party accelerationism.
- Academic framing. “Extremist Nostalgia: Mike Ma’s Novellas as Twenty-First-Century Far-Right Gothic” (Springer, 2023): Gothic tropes staging a violent transformation and an invented pre-modern return — nostalgia weaponized. Search: Extremist Nostalgia Mike Ma novellas far-right Gothic Springer.
- §1 — the self-cancelling exhortation. The determinism-vs-advocacy contradiction is a standing critique of Land’s accelerationism; Slavoj Žižek faults it as deterministic — treating the singularity as history’s pre-ordained goal. Search: Nick Land accelerationism performative contradiction determinism critique; Žižek accelerationism deterministic singularity; Aeon, “What is Nick Land’s philosophy of accelerationism really?”
- §3 — circulation as the mechanism. GNET, Far-Right Extremism and Digital Book Publishing (2024): the self-published far-right novella as a propagation format on accelerationist/ecofascist channels. SPLC Hatewatch tracks the milieu’s fixation on attacks on electrical infrastructure. Search: GNET far-right extremism digital book publishing; SPLC Hatewatch extremists electrical infrastructure.
- §5 — the invented past. Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism (1991): palingenetic ultranationalism — fascism’s core myth of national rebirth from a mythic golden age, the past as a guidebook to a manufactured tomorrow. Search: Griffin palingenetic ultranationalism Nature of Fascism golden age rebirth.
- The attractor’s other two arms, and the dispersion split. Nick Land, “Teleoplexy: Notes on Acceleration” (2014) and “Meltdown” (1994, “nothing human makes it out of the near-future”); the AQ-333↔Choronzon identity is Land’s own documented practice (cited, not imposed). The Choronzon reading of Ma is a commentator’s gloss, marked as such — not in his texts. See Teleoplexy, Hyperstition.
- Brakes. Placement / internal-contradiction / provenance, not refutation (the empirical fragility of systems is untouched); collapse available, not sealed (The Last Outside); opposition is food — the operative move is the cut (name-Y / starve / ground), not rebuttal (Antimemetics, The Accuser); the dispersion-tag on Ma is the author’s gloss, not the source (retrofit guarded); supernatural posits (Choronzon) parked at the mundane bar, structural-only; not a Ghost-Test matter; the writer’s-void brake (The Last Outside) applies — this entry is itself attention, so it is built to carry the cut, not the merchandise.
Appears in: The Modern Mirror · Teleoplexy (the economist’s arm) · Hyperstition (the ceremonial arm) · The Futurist Manifesto (the aggressive core’s 1909 root) · The Coming Insurrection (the left’s summoning, same lever) · Anti-Civilization (the left’s invented past) · The Egregore · Antimemetics · Iconoclasm · The Last Outside · Choronzon